Privacy

Who is responsible

Melix Nail Art is Melina’s nail business in the Vienna and Tysons area of Virginia. Questions or requests about your information can be sent through the contact page or by Instagram message to @melix_nailart.

What this site collects

When you browse. The site records anonymous visit statistics on its own server: the page you viewed, the site you came from (the domain only, never the full address), your device type and browser family, and campaign tags in the link you followed. To count visits without cookies, your IP address and browser details are combined with a random value that changes every day and turned into a short code. The IP address itself is never stored, the daily value is deleted after two days, and codes from different days cannot be linked. Page-speed measurements (how quickly the page loaded) are recorded the same way.

When you send a request. The booking, bridal and planner forms send what you enter: your name, how you would like to be contacted and the matching phone number, email or Instagram handle, the service and options you chose, the days that suit you, your message, and for brides the wedding date, party size and venue. The form also sends which photos you viewed or saved on this site and how you arrived (for example, from Instagram), so Melina can see which work you liked. This is used to reply to you and to plan your appointment.

Marketing emails. Only if you tick the box. You can ask to stop at any time.

Services that help run the site

• Cloudflare, Inc. delivers the site and protects it from abuse. Like any network provider it sees your IP address when you connect and keeps short-lived logs. The site sets no cookies, but if Cloudflare ever challenges a visitor it suspects of abuse, it may set a cf_clearance cookie for that purpose. The country information Cloudflare adds to requests is not stored.
• Hetzner Online GmbH hosts the server in Germany. Server access logs record only which page was requested, when, and whether it loaded (no IP address, browser details or the page you came from). They are kept for up to 14 days and are not shared.
• Telegram and Resend deliver the notification of your request to Melina, and Resend sends emails such as the Bridal Nail Planner.
• Backblaze stores encrypted backups in the EU.

The site loads no advertising, social media or analytics scripts from other companies, and Instagram is linked, never embedded.

How long information is kept

Visit statistics are kept for up to 13 months and then reduced to daily totals. Requests are kept while they are useful for your appointments and bookings; you can ask for yours to be deleted at any time.

Your choices

You can ask what information Melina holds about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, or stop marketing emails. Send the request to hello@melixnailart.com, through the contact page or on Instagram.

What is stored in your browser

The site uses your browser’s own storage, not cookies, for a few small conveniences. Nothing here is sent to anyone else, and you can clear it at any time in your browser settings.

• mx.seen (local storage): which photos you have already seen, so returning visits show you fresh work.
• mx.visits (local storage): how many times you have visited, for the same reason.
• mx.attr (local storage): how you first and last arrived (for example, an Instagram link), sent along with a request.
• mx.pref (local storage): the nail shape and length you chose, the looks you saved, whether you turned on tilt, and the set you designed in the Nail Studio (only the design choices; a shared Studio link carries nothing else, never personal data).
• mx.sid (session storage): a random identifier for this visit, deleted when you close the tab.
• mx.sid.t (session storage): when this visit was last active, so a visit ends after 30 minutes without activity.
• mx.last_visit (local storage): when your previous visit ended, so sets added since then can be marked “New”.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date below will change with it.

Last updated September 28, 2026